POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Splitter : Re: Splitter Server Time
2 Jul 2024 23:44:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Splitter  
From: Pandora
Date: 3 Sep 2002 12:01:16
Message: <3d74dccc@news.povray.org>
"LibraryMan" <mrm### [at] attnet> wrote in message
news:web.3d74d643bac72e722b597c920@news.povray.org...
> Are you sure you can use WinZip that way, to actually _split_ a file?  I
> could see compressing the other files into various zipped packages,
> especially the ones that are only text or html, but the pov binary itself
> is over the size of a floppy, and cannot be compressed but so much....  (I
> should think)
> The utility I was talking about can actually split files that weren't
meant
> to be split, and glue them back together.


    Yes - It's called Multiple Disk Spanning - the option to do this becomes
available in the WinZip Add dialog if you set the location of the target zip
file to be on a floppy...

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Pandora/Scott Hill/[::O:M:C::]Scorpion
Software Engineer.
http://www.pandora-software.com


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